How to Reach your First 10,000 Followers on Twitter

It is easy to get the numbers, even real followers, but getting engaged followers is never easy.

The process requires hard work and skills.

In this article, we are not going to discuss any cheats, tricks or spammy technique. The list of followers won’t be zombies that do not retweet or favourites your updates.

Here, we are going to discuss several tips by which you can not only get the numbers up, but get a lot of activity on your twitter profile and hopefully bring back some traffic to your own blogs and websites in the process.

1) Build up your twitter profile:

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People’s attention span on the social media is very limited.

You need to make an impression within the fraction of a second or else they will close your tab and move on. All you have got is a small one sentence bio and a profile image to impress your potential follower. No point having a random image or your business logo in the profile image – get a headshot of yours and preferably a happy one. Write a catchy sentence about yourself in the bio section and you are done.

There are other parts of your profile page that can matter as well, the header image for example. Having a good header image can hold on your followers for a few more seconds that can result in some potential clicks, retweets or favourites.

2) Quality of your Tweets:

It is understandable that you want to plug your promotional tweets, which is after all the main reason why you are working so hard on your twitter profile. But before you start to tweet promotional stuff, you have to realize what you are getting in return.

Are your tweets bringing in any retweets or clicks on the links that you are posting? Is there any benefit coming out of this self-promotional tweeting? If not, then it is time to change your tweeting habits and patterns.

Your status update needs a balance. Aim for at least 8 updates a day. Make two updates with an image. These are the two updates that will gain maximum attention and will result in most retweets and favourites. Find creative commons image from flickr, add an excellent bit of a quote and attribute the image. Then upload the image along with the tweet. Use at least 4 out of the rest 6 updates for non-promotional content. That will still leave you with one or two updates a day which can be self-promotional. This way, all of your updates, including your promotional ones will be well received by your followers.

Example – this is how organic tweets with a good image and a message looks like:

Twitter allows one thousand follows and unfollow a day. Use this method till it lasts. Follow one thousand targeted people on twitter every day. Out of these thousand people that you follow, a fraction – hopefully about a few hundred will follow back. The number of follow backs will greatly depend on the quality of people you followed. This is the reason why you should be choosy while following up the daily thousand quota.

Give it a day or two and then unfollow those that aren’t following you back.

Repeat this process every day. This is the best way to get engaged followers. Those who follow you back are mostly people who check their account for incoming influencers and follow back. At this moment, twitter has stopped most tools that used to allow auto-follow-back feature. This means, these are active people that manually followed you back.

4) Support others:

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Is it fair to expect others to share your updates while you never favourite or retweet your follower’s updates? Or even follow them back?

This is where many of us fail; we never contribute back and lose out on loyal support. Make a note to check back on the updates of those that support your updates. You don’t have to do it every time, just make sure to do it as much as possible.

All of these tips help in retaining and gaining follow-backs. At best, you can expect three thousand to six thousand followers a month. Which is a healthy rate of gaining followers and should take you past your first ten thousand followers in around three months of time?

Continue this process for over a year and you will make yourself a twitter influencer.

Great post. Question for you on the one thousand followers a day. I’ve found that once you hit 1000 people you are following, it takes into consideration how many people are following you (it wants just as many people to follow you as you follow).

The limit is at 2,000. Yes, once you hit the initial 2000 followers that you can have, from then on – you can only follow more people if you have as many followers. If I have like 5k followers, then i can follow about 5.5k people. Which means I have to unfollow some people everyday to keep following more people.

It’s really good to see you back after your long break and here you are with one interesting post with respect to how to get followers on Twitter.
Reaching 10k through Twitter will be a massive success.

Buying fans does not works, they are never engaged. Even buying them off from Official channels of Twitter and Facebook can’t get you engaged fans. The natural way is the only way to get people who are interested in your tweets.

Fiverr gigs are the worst, every single tweet or follower they provide are bots.

Glad you liked the tips. I have been using this method myself and its getting me some good results. You will find people with several thousand followers getting absolutely no response to their tweets, while – with only about 5k followers – am getting some decent retweets already,

Even on the closed and micro-niches, it is possible to reach a decent number of followers. There are people on your niche who are famous and goes to those networking events … just start following their followers 🙂

I agree that following someone just the sake of getting followback isn’t good – but as a marketer our targets are to get followers and retweets so that we can have a greater reach.

Your tips are really awesome. Having this much amount of followers on this micro blogging site is very helpful not for driving traffic to the blogs but also it can help in earning some bucks by placing gigs on fever and seo clerks. So heartily appriciate your work in providing this wonderful tric

I like the fact that you pointed out about getting quality people to follow. You definitely don’t want to just follow anyone, but only those that are consistently on twitter and are in similar niches as you are. With that said, it makes it easier for your to get 10K followers.

One thing I didn’t know is that twitter limits you to follow 1000 people a day. I must take note of this!

I remember when I first starting using Twitter that first 10K seemed like it was always out of reach, but slowly and surely it finally hit it, it’s nice to have milestones that you want to reach on Twitter and it does give you the incentive to keep climbing up the Twitter ladder as much as you can.

Yes, milestones helps a lot. I remember last year we made milestones for traffic and slowly reached it month after month – we are now at 30k uniques a month. Am nearing 6k followers on twitter but want to speed that up now.

Many Thanks for your informative post. I have been trying to host an event and getting the right type of audience in Africa especially Ghana where its hosted, have any tips attracting the right audience? I have tried to share information using the handle of key prominent people,media personalities etc. Does that help?

Hey,
I started a new blog, so I was trying to get 10000+ followers through twitter follower generator, but these generators are useless “good for nothing” thanks for sharing this article, your article is so vivid. now I am thinking I can do it without any follower generators. 🙂

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